Quotes of: Holding-hands Keyword

There are times when friendship feels like running down a hill together as fast as you can, jumping over things, spinning around, and you don't care where you're going, and you don't care where you've come from, because all that matters is speed, and...

Whales on Stilts: M. T. Anderson's Thrilling Tales

Damien: Give me your letters, Chris. [Damien holds out his hand. Chris just looks at him] Damien: Give me your letters, Chris! Chris: I didn't know what to write. And Mam can't read. [Damien lets his hand fall, sighs] Chris: Just tell her I love her....

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Magnus reached for Alec, but instead of rising to his feet, he pulled Alec against him, his hand sliding up Alec’s back to knot in his hair. Magnus pulled Alec down and against him, and kissed him,hard and awkward and determined, and Alec froze for...

City of Heavenly Fire

In times of crisis, you get a public reaction that is incoherence on stilts. On the one hand, most people know that the government is not in the oil business. They don't want it in the oil business. They know there is nothing a man in Washington can ...

David Brooks

You have captured me utterly, and you hold my heart in your hands. Be gentle with it. It's more fragile than you might think.

Claim Me

(…)man holds the remedy in his own hands, and lets everything go its own way, simply through cowardice- that is an axiom.

Crime and Punishment

She held out her hands, cupped and holding a small plant. 'The power to heal is the power to destroy,' she said with the faintest smile.

Crowharrow

I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.

Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography

Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible; and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

The Art of War

Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then.

Robert Harris

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

Auguries of Innocence

Ariella was silent, and I reached out to take her hand, squeezing as if it were a lifeline, holding me to sanity.

The Iron Knight

A man shouldn't bite the hand that feeds him, even if another holds out a golden spoon to him as reward after his betrayal.

Rise of the Morningstar

Falling asleep with hopes and wishes that I rarely get to hold in my hand for long…go me. All I’ve got are memories and secrets.

Slayers

- How does it feel to have a daughter? - At times it's like holding a warm egg in my hand.

Near to the Wild Heart

You see what power is – holding someone else’s fear in your hand and showing it to them

The Kitchen God's Wife

Then Percy let go of his tiny ledge, and together, holding hands, he and Annabeth fell into the endless darkness.

The Mark of Athena

Holding fantasy to our chests only means our hands are not free to work.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

He holds her with the strength of a million-man army, but with all the tenderness of her heart lying naked in the palms of his hands.

Phantom Universe

My hands will get dirty holding your rose-like heart, because love is like gardening—it’s earthy and takes work to keep it alive.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

for those memories are now just like these little kittens I hold in my hands those can be kissed and treasured but not held too tightly.

Turquoise Silence